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Santosh Thundiyil is a Director of Photography and Cinematography

Santosh Thundiyil

Santosh Thundiyil
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Santosh Thundiyil is one of the highly appreciated contemporary Indian cinematographers.

Usually with

Sohail Khan
Sohail Khan
(3 films)
Sajid-Wajid
Sajid-Wajid
(4 films)
Salman Khan
Salman Khan
(4 films)
Soham Shah
Soham Shah
(2 films)
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Santosh Thundiyil (18 films)

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Cameraman

M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story
Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films
Actors Sushant Singh Rajput, Disha Patani, Anupam Kher, Alia Bhatt, Shreyas Talpade, Kiara Advani
Roles Director of Photography
Rating79% 3.998763.998763.998763.998763.99876
Basé sur l'histoire de la vie de Mahendra Singh Dhoni et de son parcours pour devenir le capitaine de l'équipe indienne de cricket, vainqueur de la coupe du monde
Rustom
Rustom (2016)

Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Akshay Kumar, Ileana D'Cruz, Esha Gupta, Arjan Bajwa, Sachin Khedekar, Anang Desai
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69% 3.4993253.4993253.4993253.4993253.499325
Rustom Pavri, un honorable officier de la Marine indienne tire sur son ami Vikram à mort après avoir découvert que sa femme Cynthia avait une liaison avec le riche homme d'affaires. Le commandant se rend à la police immédiatement et admet avoir tué Vikram mais plaide «non coupable» devant les tribunaux. Est-il condamné ou acquitté?
Jai Ho
Jai Ho (2014)

Directed by Sohail Khan
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Salman Khan, Govinda, Danny Denzongpa, Tabu, Ashish Chowdhry, Lara Dutta
Roles Director of Photography
Rating50% 2.5425952.5425952.5425952.5425952.542595
Jai Ho est un remake du film telugu Stalin lui-même fortement inspiré du film américain Un monde meilleur.Jai (Salman Khan) est un mécanicien qui vient en aide à tous ceux qui en ont besoin. Frappé par l’égoïsme des gens, il souhaite mettre en place une chaîne d’entraide. Parallèlement, en aidant les plus faibles, il se met à dos des gens de plus en plus puissants, jusque dans les hautes sphères de l’état.
Jai Ho
Jai Ho (2014)
, 2h22
Directed by Sohail Khan
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Salman Khan, Sana Khan, Daisy Shah, Tabu, Daisy Shah, Ashmit Patel
Roles Director of Photography
Rating50% 2.5004252.5004252.5004252.5004252.500425
Jai Agnihotri (Salman Khan), an ex-army officer, is passionate about helping people and overcomes criminals single-handedly. He was a major in the Indian Army, but was suspended because of a disciplinary action after he ignored the orders of the high command and went ahead to rescue a bunch of children from terrorists. He now lives with his mother (Nadira Babbar) as well as his sister Geeta (Tabu), both of who are not on speaking terms with each other since Geeta married a Muslim man against her mother's wish.
Jayantabhai Ki Luv Story
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Vivek Oberoi, Neha Sharma, Nassar, Zakir Hussain, Raj Singh Arora, Rahul Singh
Roles Director of Photography
Rating53% 2.653542.653542.653542.653542.65354
Investigation of potential copyright issue
Celluloid Man, 2h30
Directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Genres Biography, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Krzysztof Zanussi, Lester James Peries, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Gulzar, Naseeruddin Shah
Roles Director of Photography
Rating75% 3.791543.791543.791543.791543.79154
P. K. Nair’s fascination with cinema began as a child and he watched his first few films lying on the white sand floor of a cinema in Trivandrum. He was a collector even then - collecting ticket stubs, lobby cards, even weighing machine tickets sporting pictures of the stars of the day. He grew up to be a great collector of films.
Rowdy Rathore, 2h23
Directed by Prabhu Deva
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about families
Actors Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Paresh Ganatra, Prabhu Deva, Nassar, Yashpal Sharma
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58% 2.900272.900272.900272.900272.90027
Shiva (Akshay Kumar) is a small-time thief in Mumbai who falls in love with Paro (Sonakshi Sinha). He tells her the truth about being a thief and resolves to give up crime because he loves Paro dearly. Before that, he decides to commit a large robbery along with his con-friend 2G (Paresh Ganatra), which would enable him to earn a lot of money; hence he can give up crime. He "tricks" a woman on a railway station (Gurdeep Kohli) and flees with a trunk. This leads Shiva to Chinki, a little girl who was in the trunk instead of the wealth he thought was there. Chinki thinks that he is her father. Puzzled, he is forced to keep Chinki with him, as a police officer (Yashpal Sharma) keeps his eye on him.
Patiala House, 2h27
Directed by Nikhil Advani
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Cricket films
Actors Rishi Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma, Dimple Kapadia, Armaan Kirmani, Prem Chopra
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56% 2.801262.801262.801262.801262.80126
The movie is about Parghat Singh Kahlon alias Gattu / Kaali (Akshay Kumar) who is living the life his father Gurtej Singh Kahlon (Rishi Kapoor) chose for him. Gattu had been good at cricket and wanted to play for England though his dad would never let him become a member of the England team. His dad had told him if he played he would commit suicide. His siblings hated him as he was an exemplary in the house. He was always alone until Zeeshan and Simran (Anushka Sharma) come into his life.
Pyaar Impossible!, 1h20
Directed by Jugal Hansraj
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Priyanka Chopra, Dino Morea, Uday Chopra, Anupam Kher, Jugal Hansraj, Madhura Naik
Roles Director of Photography
Rating49% 2.4526252.4526252.4526252.4526252.452625
In Ankert University, California (Assumption University, Bangkok), Alisha (Priyanka Chopra) is the most beautiful girl on campus with plenty of admirers. Awkward, nerdy Abhay (Uday Chopra) is in love with her, although she is unaware of his existence. One night Alisha is partying with her friends and accidentally falls into a river. Abhay jumps in and rescues her from drowning, but her friends take her away before she regains consciousness. Abhay is further prevented from seeing Alisha the next day when her outraged father comes to the college and removes her from college.
Luck
Luck (2009)
, 2h21
Directed by Soham Shah
Genres Drama, Thriller, Musical theatre, Action, Adventure
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan, Shruti Haasan, Danny Denzongpa, Ravi Kishan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating48% 2.403272.403272.403272.403272.40327
Luck is the story of kingpin Karim Musa (Sanjay Dutt), who is a very lucky person seeing the story of his life. He remained the sole survivor when a mosque collapsed in Maharashtra when he was just a child of nine months and was amongst very few survivors of another incident at the age of 12. When he was 14, he challenged three friends to jump from a four-storied building and remained alive, though with some injuries, and won. He started gambling at 19 and since then tried out his luck in different places of the world and became known as Musa Bhai. To him gambling and drug smuggling have become old ways to get money, his latest interest is investment on people's luck.
Krrish
Krrish (2006)
, 3h5
Directed by Rakesh Roshan
Origin Inde
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about music and musicians, Superhero films, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah, Preity Zinta, Sharat Saxena
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.199873.199873.199873.199873.19987
Five-year-old Krishna Mehra undergoes an intelligence quotient test by a professor, who suspects that he has superpowers. His grandmother Sonia (Rekha) takes the young Krishna to a remote mountain village to conceal his unique abilities. Years later, Krishna (Hrithik Roshan) meets Priya (Priyanka Chopra) and her friend Honey (Manini Mishra) when Krishna's friend Bahadur (Hemant Pandey) takes the girls' camping crew near his home to camp. Krishna saves Priya from a hang glider accident and falls in love with her when spending time with her.
Kaal
Kaal (2005)
, 3h26
Directed by Soham Shah
Origin Inde
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Ajay Devgn, Vivek Oberoi, John Abraham, Lara Dutta, Esha Deol, Shahrukh Khan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating47% 2.3515052.3515052.3515052.3515052.351505
Two British nationals are killed by a ferocious tiger in Orbit National Park in India. This incident follows several other tiger attacks, and many deaths result, prompting National Geographic to send a correspondent, Krish Thapar (John Abraham) to the national park and ascertain what really happened. Thapar is accompanied by his wife Riya (Esha Deol). A group of youngsters, consisting of Dev Malhotra (Vivek Oberoi), Ishika (Lara Dutta), Sajid (Kushal Punjabi) and Vishal (Vishal Malhotra), on a hunting trip also arrive in Orbit National Park in the hopes of sighting and shooting some big prey.
Waqt
Waqt (2005)
, 2h28
Directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Genres Drama
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Shefali Shah, Boman Irani, Rajpal Yadav
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66% 3.3482953.3482953.3482953.3482953.348295
Ishwarchand Thakur (Amitabh Bachchan) and Sumitra Thakur (Shefali Shah) are a married couple who run a toy factory together. They have a son named Aditya Thakur (Akshay Kumar) who does not have any interest in responsibility or what he wants to do in life. It gets even worse when he elopes with his girlfriend, Pooja (Priyanka Chopra), the daughter of Natu (Boman Irani).
Pinjar
Pinjar (2003)
, 3h8
Directed by Dr.Chandra Prakash Dwivedi
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Urmila Matondkar, Manoj Bajpayee, Sanjay Suri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Isha Koppikar, Seema Biswas
Roles Director of Photography
Rating78% 3.9451853.9451853.9451853.9451853.945185
Pinjar tells the story of Puro, a young woman of Hindu background, living a lovely life — circling the time of the partition of 1947 — with her family. Puro is betrothed to a wealthy, sweet young man, Ramchand, from a promising family. Puro's bliss is shattered one day as a leisurely trip with Rajjo, her younger sister, turns traumatic as she is kidnapped by a mysterious Muslim man, Rashid. Rashid's family has an ancestral dispute with Puro's family. Puro's family had made Rashid's homeless by taking over their property. Puro's grand-uncle had even kidnapped Rashid's grand-aunt and then released her after defiling her. Rashid's family made him swear that he would kidnap Puro to settle the score.